amaotonovel Chapter 456 1 Shoulder 2 Room 1
Chapter 456 1 Shoulder 2 Room 1
"Nan Yin Xu Guo, the so-called youthful love and true love are just a joke."
These were the last words left by the original owner before his death in his previous life.
"If you don't agree," Cheng's mother slammed the table hard, "If you don't agree, then get out of here and go back to your parents' home. I'll let Wenxuan divorce you."
"So what mother said about discussing this with me just now was just a polite remark," Jiang Chunxi sneered, "So there is no room for discussion with me on this matter. If that's the case, then why did mother say such high-sounding words just now?"
"Chunxi, how can you talk to mother like this?" Cheng Wenxuan frowned and looked at Jiang Chunxi. He was the husband of the original owner. "Hurry up and admit your mistake to mother. Look how angry you made her."
"Cheng Wenxuan," Jiang Chunxi glared at Cheng Wenxuan, "Have you forgotten what you promised me before you married me? You said you would never take a concubine and would only stay with me for the rest of your life. But it's only been a few years! You're planning to marry another woman."
"What do you mean by shouldering two wives? Are you disgusting me or bullying me by starting a family?"
Cheng Wenxuan's cousin joined the army at the age of sixteen, and his uncle had only one son, his cousin. Cheng Wenxuan's cousin had already been engaged, and the woman was the niece of Cheng Wenxuan's mother's family.
According to their ages, the two should have been married long ago. However, because an enemy country invaded the border four years ago, Cheng Wenxuan's cousin led the troops to fight and was away for four years.
Three months ago, news came from the border that Cheng Wenxuan's cousin had died in battle. This was a severe blow to Cheng Wenxuan's uncle and his wife. They both fell ill and immediately lost interest in living.
It was at this time that Cheng Wenxuan's grandmother proposed the idea of letting Cheng Wenxuan take on the responsibility of marrying two wives at the same time, and let Cheng Wenxuan marry the niece of Cheng's mother's family, who was also his cousin's fiancée, instead of his cousin.
Cheng's mother was naturally willing to do so, because her son marrying her niece solved the problem of her niece's lifelong affairs. After all, her niece was too old, and even if she wanted to arrange another marriage, she would not be able to find a good one.
On the other hand, if this is the case, then everything in the eldest house will belong to the son, whether it is property or the uncle's connections in officialdom, all of which will be given to his son.
Otherwise, what kind of help could her husband's fifth-rank official position bring to her son? It's not like her uncle who was the Minister of War.
Old Mrs. Cheng had two sons. The eldest son was Cheng Wenxuan’s uncle, and the younger son was naturally Cheng Wenxuan’s father.
Because the youngest son has limited ability and has been working as an official for decades but is still not making progress, if the family were to separate from the youngest son's official position of a fifth-rank official, none of the official families in the capital would take the youngest son's family seriously.
So for the sake of her younger son's family, the old lady had always been unwilling to let her two sons separate. And coincidentally, the eldest son and his wife were both filial and not the kind of people who would care about things. Therefore, Cheng Wenxuan's family had been able to live in the Minister of War's Mansion and had not been separated.
Cheng's mother is also smart. Since she married into the Cheng family, she has always been on good terms with her sister-in-law, and the two sisters-in-law have always had a good relationship.
It was also because of this that the marriage between her niece and nephew from her mother's side was able to be facilitated. Otherwise, it would become a matter of her mother's family background, and her niece would not be worthy of the eldest son of the Minister of War.
In her previous life, the original owner naturally also disagreed with her husband marrying someone else, but the problem was that it was useless for her to disagree!
In ancient times, women had no human rights. Even if the original owner's family background was good, the Jiang family could not say anything about Cheng Wenxuan shouldering two wives at the same time. After all, Cheng Wenxuan's cousin sacrificed his life for the country, and the Cheng family just let Cheng Wenxuan shoulder two wives at the same time. The Jiang family could not say anything about this in terms of emotion or reason.
Even the original owner's mother advised her to accept this, so the original owner watched her husband marry someone else, and watched her husband fall in love with someone else.
The niece from Cheng's mother's family is a powerful person. Since she married into the Cheng family, she has framed the original owner time and time again, making people think that the original owner was arrogant and domineering and bullied her. Not only did she win Cheng Wenxuan's heartache, but she also made all the elders in the Cheng family hate the original owner.
In short, the original owner became a hated person in the original family, which indirectly led to the original owner's children being treated coldly. The mother and son seemed to be the two rotten apples in the family.
It was also because of this that when the original owner's son later fell into the fish pond and drowned, the original owner cried and demanded a thorough investigation of the matter. However, no one in the Cheng family took the original owner's words seriously, and some even directly said that the original owner was crazy and put him under house arrest.
Of course, the original owner's suspicion was correct. Her son was indeed murdered, because there was no servant around him when he fell. This in itself was a very suspicious thing, but the people in the family were blind and no one believed the original owner's words. They thought that the original owner was driven crazy by her son's death.
Or maybe they knew in their hearts that this was not an accident, but they all chose to cover up the murderer. The person who could make them cover up was naturally that woman.
The original owner fell ill after her son died, and within half a year she was terminally ill. Before she died, the woman went to see the original owner and readily admitted that she was the one who killed the original owner's son.
The original owner died with hatred in her heart. Her wish was simple. Not only did she want to protect her son and keep him alive, but she also wanted to take revenge on the Cheng family.
"Chun Xi, don't you know how I feel about you?" Cheng Wenxuan had a look of grief on his face. "When I swore to you, I was thinking of loving you and being together forever, but my cousin died on the battlefield, and my uncle and his wife both fell ill, didn't they?"
"So what can I do? Are you going to let me watch my uncle and his wife die of illness?"
"Don't give me these high-sounding words," Jiang Chunxi said directly, "If it's just for the continuation of your uncle's family line, then we can just give birth to another son and adopt him to your cousin's name. At worst, you still have two half brothers, so let them adopt one to your uncle. Why do you have to shoulder the responsibility of two branches?"
"In the final analysis, it's because you are very happy about this matter," Jiang Chunxi laughed sarcastically, "But it's also true that you, Cheng Wenxuan, only passed the imperial examination and got a second-class Jinshi. If this indirectly makes you the son of your uncle, your uncle will definitely promote you and pour all his resources in the officialdom into you."
"So! Don't act like you have no choice in front of me. It's disgusting. Do you really think I, Jiang Chunxi, am stupid? Can't you see that the beads in your mind are about to fall on my face?"